[ONC 2022 SHORTLISTER] In a small city, catering services are not the best business to opt for - too late for Lucas Schneider to realize that. With a catering company on the verge of bankruptcy, he is at his wits end. He has no choice but to give up on his dream job not until a certain Mr. Pheles decides to hire him. ...
Sealed within Kealie Gothalis are the secrets of a magic destined to flood her kingdom. Trading her Mortality to disguise the heritage her mother fears most, Kealie is gifted with a blessing. She need only do one thing; keep her kingdom in the dark until the dusk of her twentieth birthday. But her control over the anc...
Entry for ONC2022 Cheryl is a young woman who runs her own catering company. Her apartment isn't the best looking out there but it is her home. She has a reputation to uphold but what happens when a few customers give her trouble? A new neighbour moves in and immediately starts trouble. What happens when she goes to...
The sun disappeared on Lilith's sixteenth birthday, and ever since she's been living with the curse that lingered in her blood since birth. She was dhampir, and the chosen liaison between the Vampire Lords and their human counterparts, whether she wanted it or not. It didn't help that her best friend was the local p...
💜#ONC2022💜 "Pluck your eyes off with this." The voice stormed in the dark icy cave. After refusing to move an inch to the sword hanging in the air, a dagger fell beside my toes from the small crack above my head. ★★★★ "Amelia, would you rather..." Those were the last words from her boyfriend befor...
"There was something inside [her] that wouldn't stop until the whole world was blood." The kingdom of Ostrova has been at war for centuries, and to feed the unending cycle of violence, every year, the day after the New Year, every sixteen-year-old in the realm is conscripted. A notoriously difficult exam called the Pr...
Simon Tuttle is dead. When Finnigan Walsh attends the funeral of his late, long-lost uncle, he expects to simply pay some unemotional respects and head home. Instead, he's drawn into a bizarre mystery as he meets three of his uncle's old friends. A blind man armed to the teeth. A woman that speaks and moves only in wh...
The angels of Elysia are dying, and it's all Micah's fault. Stealing the Heart of Asariel was never intended as anything more than a harmless prank. It was certainly never supposed to end in the Heart lost to the earth, and Micah caught red-handed. In an attempt to put an end to his troublemaking ways, he is tasked wi...
Please see "Coming... Later?" before starting! The Heartsworn Saga is getting its own television show, and for Sophie Meyer, who has been a fan since it was a small story online, she couldn't dream of many things better. From writing fanfiction to helping manage online communities just about the fandom, one coul...
[ONC 2022 LONGLIST || FEATURED] Xie Xiao's fate changed two thousand years ago, when he nearly lost his life at the hands of a friend, and then became an immortal because of the same person. He has been living a wanderer's life since then, watching the world change--watching wars crest and fade, nations rise and fall...
Entered into the Open Novella Contest 2022 | This version of the book was posted solely for the ONC. A final, even more, polished version will be coming soon to Amazon! All feedback on story pacing, character development, and the overall plot is most appreciated. | ©2022 E. S. Elias All Rights Reserved. Published to W...
ONC 2022 Longlister! After years of dreaming of a different world and being visited by a bird that defies identification, Miriam Rogers embarks on a mysterious quest to repair something she doesn't understand. Along the way, she meets the crown prince of her dream world who claims she is his soulmate, the prophesied k...
Behind the realm of what is known as reality lies a world of supernatural creatures with their own laws and reign. Aryzath, or well known as the White Dragon Prince, is born into such world as the heir to the throne amongst Dragonkind. However, instead of wanting to take care of his kingdom and people, his interest li...
FIRST BOOK OF THE PIPER OF MIRCHAEK TRILOGY When the walled city of the gods, Dansarun, opens its doors for trade, Xuijae's ruling clan sends its perfect representatives: the troublesome prince, Kai-Se, who wants nothing to do with palace life, and Nao-Zai, the stern soldier from the warrior clan assigned to protect h...
Mavra Kedrovna is a corpsewitch and nobody knows. Cursed with the ability to control blood and reanimate corpses into upyrs, she's been confined to a convent alongside other young women for their protection amidst the Happenings; a series of disappearances and attacks plaguing Roz's villages. On the eve of mass hyste...